A Bonatti-led consortium with J&P AVAX and the French company Spiecapag won a tender for the construction of the land part of a TAP pipeline project, it was announced on Friday.
It is the biggest contract of the project, which envisages construction of a 760-km pipeline stretching from the Greek-Turkish borders to the coast of Albania. The project was broken into five pieces, three in Greece and two in Albania.
The Bonatti-AVAX consortium will undertake the part from Kavala to the Greek-Albanian borders (Ieropigi), with a length of 360 km, while Spiecapag will undertake the remaining 185 km of the pipeline stretching from Kipi to Kavala and two sections in Albania (215 km) between Bilisht and Topoje.
The consortium will also build a passage across the Evros river, where TAP will be connected with TANAP, the pipeline linking Azerbaijan with the Greek-Turkish borders.
The pipeline will have a diameter of 48 inches (1.2 metres) and a transport capacity of 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually, in an initial stage. Works are expected to begin in mid-2016.
Source: ANA/MPA
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